Mystler wrote:Just out of curiosity: This thread originally was about PyPRP for Blender.
If you have 15 years of experience with Max, why don't you use Max instead of Blender?
Simply put... Because Blender is free.
The more complicated version is that I want to live at a higher vibration level and that means I have to do higher vibration things. Since Blender is free I can legitimately use it and provide tutorials for it. Were I to use Max it would cause me to vibrate at a lower vibration level.
Also, because I will be making video tutorials, using Max might be a negative influence to others, while using Blender will not be. How do I expect the average hobbyist gamer to follow along using Max? Also I can reach more people, bring more people into the community, through Blender instead of Max, because more people have access to Blender and can use it, especially the newer versions.
Finally there is something to be said about the whole, "How you build your house" analogy. In the past I used Max. I built my house on sand. While I do not believe in Karma, judgment or eternal consequences now, back then I did, and using Max was a strain on my conscience, and therefore it more than likely negatively impacted my art. I want to do differently, better, this time.
And Christopher... I agree that realistically something like building an editor for Uru, especially for a coder just starting out, is a daunting task, maybe even insurmountable, and certainly something that should take a lot of time. But guess what? I also believe that I create my own reality for myself. So I will invest no energy in what others think of as real or impossible. This is all merely perception. The only reason people can't walk through walls is because they believe that the walls are solid. But we know in science that neither our bodies, no anything around us, is solid at all. Humanities beliefs, ingrained into us from the time of our birth, affect our perception. The human perception of reality as a whole is very limited. I choose to have an unlimited point of view where anything is possible. It may be that I could not code the editor, by myself, in anything under 2 years. But maybe I won't be doing it by myself. Or maybe it will be a far shorter length of time just because I will it to be so.
You live in a world of unlimited possibilities. All things are possible. You just have to believe it! In the Myst universe terms, you have to be Catherine or Yeesha, not Atrus or the D'ni!
OK, we have seriously wandered off-topic here. But that's OK. Let this thread go where it will.